Car stocks got a boost Thursday following the meeting between the U.S. and European Union that earned automakers in the region a reprieve from higher import tariffs.

“Cities with more home value inequality have a wider distribution of home values, which means that families earning lower incomes may still have the opportunity to access home ownership in these cities,” the report states.

The biodiesel program began as a pilot last year. It has now been scaled up to cover 85 McDonald’s restaurants in Mumbai.

The recent rise in the price of oil has raised the likelihood of a recession, according to market forecasts.

Political and economic events are shaping the oil market in a way that they have not shaped for quite some time,” Tamas Varga, senior analyst at PVM Oil Associates, said in a research note published Thursday.

All sites belonging to DB Cargo U.K. will be supplied by SSE Business Energy in a three-year agreement. The deal will prevent an estimated 5,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent from entering the atmosphere each year.

U.S. industrial production increased in June, boosted by a sharp rebound in manufacturing and further gains in mining output, the latest sign of robust economic growth in the second quarter.

The International Monetary Fund is keeping its forecast for global economic growth unchanged at 3.9 percent this year despite worries about rising trade tensions and higher oil prices. But the lending agency is downgrading the outlook for Europe and Japan.

U.S. consumer prices barely rose in June, but the underlying trend continued to point to a steady buildup of inflation pressures that could keep the Federal Reserve on a path of gradual interest rate increases.

The shipping industry plays a crucial role in the running of the global economy and like any major sector, it has an environmental impact.

Alaska falls to the bottom of CNBC’s Top States for Business rankings as it deals with the aftereffects of a big oil slump.

Experts say the housing market is vulnerable to rising interest rates, job losses due to tariffs and local policies against development.

Mastercard is holding talks with banks in the U.K. about bringing biometric payment cards to market.

The trade war the U.S. now finds itself in could push more buyers into the used car market, which is already robust enough to take a bite out of new car and pickup sales.

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Germany exporting more than it imports is becoming a big problem for its economy, the director of the country’s closely-watched Ifo Institute said Wednesday.

A slew of global developments are convening to threaten economic growth, according to one investment manager, who believes that the risks of a recession next year have now “significantly increased.”

A recent paper from the World Economic Forum and Accenture estimates digitization could bring more than $425 billion of value for the mining industry, customers, society and environment over the next 10 years (to 2025). With opportunities this lucrative, it's vital not to be left behind.

Manhattan real estate had its worst second quarter since the financial crisis, with prices and sales dropping and inventory rising, according to a new report.

Oil prices fell by more than 1 percent on Monday as supplies from top exporter Saudi Arabia rose and as signs of an economic slowdown in Asia dented the outlook for demand.